Welcome to the Commian podcast.

My name is Jeff Krasno.

How many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article, where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the physiological to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it here as a bonus episode.

So in mathematics and physics, the concept of singularity is a point where certain quantities become undefined.

A singularity is often attributed to the force of gravity, which becomes infinitely strong at the center of a black hole.

It's also applied to the theory of the Big Bang.

At the very, very beginning before you and me and squirrels and algae and the earth, all the matter, energy, space, and time were compressed into a single point of infinite density and temperature.

This is singularity. The laws of physics no longer apply. We can't get our cognitive arms around it.

And this can be a little frustrating because we love the empirical for what we can measure,

we can improve, and indeed, Commune provides ample opportunity in this respect.

We just released a course on biomarkers with our dear friend, Dr. Mark Hyman.

We can test for everything, magnesium, vitamin D, ALT, blood sugar, estrogen, and on.

This new age of agency informs the quantified self,

and it comes with all sorts of gadgets and rules and optimal zones.

But is there an unquantified self,

an aspect of life that is simply ineffable?

Why do I get goosebumps when my eldest daughter looks up at me through dewy eyes?

Why do I feel a gravitational pull akin to that of an iron core when Skyler spoons me in bed?

There is a serendipitous fancifulness of life that we can't put our thumb on, a singularity,

and we only know it when it shakes us out of dull care and kisses us on the lips.

In today's episode, my brother from another mother, Jake Laub, captures this essence beautifully,

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